Delacroix 2018

8. Morrocan Jewish Couple Couple juif marocain

1832 Watercolor on paper 3 5 ⁄ 8 x 4 7 ⁄ 8

inches (9.5 x 12.5 cm) Estate sale stamp lower right: Lugt 838a

PROVENANCE Delacroix sale 1864, lot 441, as Buste de juif et de juive ; Purchased by Etienne Arago for 160 FF; Possibly his sale, Paris, 1892, part of lot 102; Private collection, Paris, as of 1933.

LITERATURE Robaut, no. 1609.

EXHIBITION Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Voyage de Delacroix au Maroc en 1832 et exposition retrospective du peintre orientaliste M. Auguste , 1933, no. 208.

LOAN PRIVATE COLLECTION